Jules Dupuit, Societe d'economie politique de Paris and the issue of population in France (1850 - 66)

Yves Breton and Gerard Klotz

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2006, vol. 13, issue 3, 337-363

Abstract: The tradition that views Dupuit only as a brilliant engineer-economist who trained at the Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussees remained strong in the fifty years that followed World War II. Within this tradition, research on Dupuit mostly was focused on his publications on surplus theory, road tolls and discriminating monopoly. His participation in the debates about other issues taking place within the various learned societies to which he belonged (Societe d'economie politique de Paris, Societe d'economie sociale, Societe de statistique de Paris) long remained unexplored. But recent research has begun filling the gap. This paper follows on these latter research efforts. It aims at uncovering a largely unknown facet of Dupuit, endeavouring to fully elicit his role in the various controversies that took place in France between 1850 and 1866 on the issues of population and the Malthusian principle of population.

Keywords: Jules Dupuit; Thomas Robert Malthus; population principle; Malthusianism; overpopulation; colonization; emigration; individualism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/09672560600875406

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